Reconnaissance du genocide armenien de 1915, French National Assembly, October 12, 2006 . Read the full text of the bill. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Three Canadian citizens supported by Amnesty International Canada demanded an official inquiry into their cases Thursday along the lines of that undertaken for Maher Arar to determine what role Canadian security forces played in their arrest and alleged torture in Syria between 2001 and 2004. Kuwaiti-born Ahmad El Maati, Syrian-born Abdullah Almalki and Iraqi-born Muayyed [...]

Sixteen Afghan men were reunited with their families Thursday after being released by the US military from four years of detention in Guantanamo Bay . The men denied links to Islamic terror groups and alleged abuse at the hands of their captors as they spoke at the offices of the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission [...]

Sixteen states have in recent years made it easier for convicted felons to vote, according to new report by The Sentencing Project . Lifetime voting bans in Iowa , Nebraska, and New Mexico have been lifted, and nine additional states have made voting easier for freed prisoners and those merely on probation. An exception to [...]

Moroccan-born Mounir al-Motassadeq , who was convicted by a German court last year for his involvement with the Sept. 11 attacks , could face a third trial, a judge in Germany's highest court of appeals said Thursday. Though Motassadeq was convicted last year, both the prosecution and defendant filed appeals, and Motassadeq was released on [...]

As many as 80 Guantanamo Bay detainees could face trial before military commissions, a US State Department legal adviser said Thursday. John Bellinger also said President Bush will sign Congress' recently-passed military commissions bill , on Tuesday, allowing military commission trials "finally to go forward." AP has more. In a related development, US military officials [...]

US Attorney Patrick Meehan filed an indictment Thursday against stockbrokers Anthony Postiglione, Jr. and William Lennon, co-founders of Foutainhead Fund LP, alleging that they defrauded investors out of almost $2 million. Both men are charged with eighteen counts of mail fraud and one court of securities fraud, and Postiglione is also charged with one count [...]

Daniel T. Griswold : "The 700-mile, $1.2-billion wall along the U.S.-Mexican border that Congress authorized before leaving town will not stem the flow of illegal immigrants to the United States. It will be an expensive, ugly band-aid. We built several miles of walls through urban areas in the 1990s, and it only succeeded in diverting [...]

Dhiren Barot, a British man accused of planning a series of bombs on US and British targets, pleaded guilty on Thursday to conspiracy to murder for his role in the Gas Limos Project bombing scheme and a separate plan to explode dirty bombs. Prosecutors alleged that Barot planned to use a radioactive "dirty bomb" in [...]

British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett on Thursday called the "continuing detention without a fair trial" at the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay "unacceptable in terms of human rights" and "ineffective in terms of counterterrorism." In announcing the release of Britain's 2006 Report on Human Rights , Beckett reiterated calls for the US to close [...]